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Margaret Thatcher has died
Topic Started: Apr 8 2013, 12:16 PM (548 Views)
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Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.

Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.

She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.

Baroness Thatcher's government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead! :thumbsup:
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I will neither mourn nor celebrate her death. She is dead, and that is that.

I do not, however, agree with the quasi-state funeral that she will get. It should have been a small private service, attended by her family, friends, other members of her party, of the current government and also the opposition.
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39. Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead - Judy Garland (Et Al.)
100. Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello
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Margaret Thatcher dead: Morrissey blasts former PM as "barbaric" just hours after her death
8 Apr 2013 19:36
Source: mirror.co.uk

The musician has been a long-time critic of the former Prime Minister and aired his views in songs like Margaret On The Guillotine

The musician has been a long-time critic of the former Prime Minister and aired his views in songs like Margaret On The Guillotine.

Tonight, just hours after her death, he released a strongly-worded statement slamming the former Tory politician.

The former Smiths singer said: "Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

"Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the Ivory Trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own Cabinet booted her out."

Morrissey, whose first Smiths single Hand In Glove was released a month before Baroness Thatcher won her second term of office as Prime Minister in 1983, was highly critical of her role in the Falklands War.

He said: "She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone - and was sailing AWAY from the islands.

"When the young Argentinian boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs up sign for the British press. Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes.

"She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a Prime Minister could actually be female.

"But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Outspoken Morrissey, who recently cancelled a series of shows due to ill health, went on: "Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death.

"As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity," he added.
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Apr 8 2013, 09:40 PM
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39. Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead - Judy Garland (Et Al.)
100. Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello
Not a shock to see some songs about her in the I-Tunes Chart, I see over at Facebook a group has started called "Let's get a song about Maggie to No1" :thumbsup:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/262435873893147/members/ :thumbsup:

It let's FB Members help pick or add a Anti-Maggie song to try & make it into the chart like the Anti-X-Factor Group a few years back. :thumbsup:

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Apr 8 2013, 09:40 PM
itunes chart
39. Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead - Judy Garland (Et Al.)
100. Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello
Not a shock to see some songs about her in the I-Tunes Chart, I see over at Facebook a group has started called "Let's get a song about Maggie to No1" :thumbsup:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/262435873893147/members/ :thumbsup:

It let's FB Members help pick or add a Anti-Maggie song to try & make it into the chart like the Anti-X-Factor Group a few years back. :thumbsup:

UPDATE: Judy Garland 19 Elvis Costello 82
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I think Morrissey has hit the nail on the head here. I, for one, will be toasting her death tonight. Having grown up in the North West in the 1980s, and seeing the devastating effects her policies had on the area and the people, I loathed the old witch with a passion, as did many, many people. Good riddance to her. May she rot in hell.
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This is going to get old very, very quick.
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Apr 8 2013, 12:16 PM
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Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.

Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.

She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.

Baroness Thatcher's government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
The scourge of the working classes. Good riddance to bad blood.
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